Thunderhead

About the Book

The author has described the poems in this book as the "songs in my heart" since they reflect the many varied experiences life has offered and the colorful variety of people he has been privileged to know. They also reflect the profound impression the natural world has left upon him. Through his poetry he seeks to share these experiences with others.

About the Author

Ken Grant, a retired Presbyterian minister, lives with his wife in Pasadena, California. Born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Glendale, he was a "movie moppet" (bit player and extra) during his teen years and served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during World War Two. Returning afterward he completed his education at the University of Southern California. Following seminary training, he spent nearly forty years pastoring churches in California and the Midwest including parishes in Iowa, Arizona, Missouri and Colorado. Ken's interests are broad and his sympathies wide as his poems, written over many years, suggest. Some reflect his experience overseas, others a brief time in the business world. Many others, however, were born of his years spent pastoring an extensive variety of churches and the fascinating people met along the way. Ken's previously published book, Ponderings (1986), is a collection of stories about country folk in their relation with each other and "The Almighty" as told by an old hand, a cowboy named Cactus. "I created Cactus years ago and even occasionally impersonated him to my congregations, telling stories that later became Ponderings. An Iowa congregation even presented me with a live horse in appreciation!" This present volume, Thunderhead, takes its title from the first poem while the last is by "The Old Hand." Poems between are the product of the long life and richly varied experience of a sensitive soul who continues to write and stay very much alive and active in his senior years. The sketches that appear in this book are the work of the author whose hobbies include among others, both sketching and painting scenes and faces.